One thing that sucks about the newspaper’esque decline of local TV news is that we’re getting less and less and less of those funny, sensational news stories that made local TV news actually watchable. You know, stories that involved people like Sweet Brown not having time for that, or Sir Jon Michael reminiscing about sunbathing in the nude on top of a school bus before cops swooped down on his landlord’s marijuana grow operation.

Fortunately, KFOR’s Peyton Yager is on the scene and on the story, to make sure some entertaining news still trickles down to our corner. For example, she recently filed this Jerry Springer-inspired report about a scabby biker named Tim Yost and the two women who loved him — and maybe even tried to kill him.

Check it out:

Apparently it’s more difficult to acquire ancient biblical artifacts from the middle east than it is worthless junk from China.

The Green family – the holy rolling owners of Hobby Lobby – are once again in the news, after they were once again busted buying stolen shit for their massive Washington D.C. bible museum.

Via The Daily Beast:

In June The Daily Beast reported on the possibility that an illustrious award-winning professor at the University of Oxford had sold an ancient fragment of the Gospel of Mark that did not belong to him to crafting giant Hobby Lobby, Inc.

At the time of purchase the Green family, the owners of Hobby Lobby, planned to donate the fragments to Museum of the Bible, the charitable organization and D.C.-based museum they founded. Statements released today by Museum of the Bible and the Egypt Exploration Society reveal that the Mark fragment was just the beginning of the scandal. Investigations have revealed that (so far) 13 pieces in the Museum’s collection are in fact the rightful property of the Oxford-based nonprofit Egypt Exploration Society.

Stolen or not, let’s hope the Greens were smart enough to buy these antiquities while they were 50-percent off. Otherwise, they’re getting screwed!

So, tell us more about these artifacts. Were they part of the first biblical kitchen cross wall? Were there any ancient clay “Live. Laugh. Love” tablets?

MAPS 4EVER is officially a go.

Earlier this week, the Oklahoma Supreme Court rejected a bid by local town contrarian Ed Shadid to shelve MAPS 4EVER on the grounds that it violated the “single-subject rule” in the Oklahoma Constitution.

Here are details via The Oklahoman:

The Oklahoma Supreme Court has rejected former Ward 2 Councilman Ed Shadid’s bid to scuttle MAPS 4.

In a 10-page ruling issued Monday, the high court said Oklahoma City’s MAPS 4 ordinance is constitutional.

The unanimous decision by Justice Douglas Combs says the ordinance “does not violate the single-subject rule found in the Oklahoma Constitution,” nor does it violate state statute or the city’s charter.

Yeah, you know that $900-million, all-or-nothing plan put together by the ruling class that includes 16 different projects of varying size, cost and scope? It all covers just one subject.

Here’s what Mayor McSelfie – a conservative who is employed by a company that greatly benefits from taxpayer-funded MAPS projects – had to say about the ruling…